1938-08-03 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 3, 1938.

FIGHTING IN PROGRESS

MANCHURIA BORDER

ON

JAPANESE

Japanese Make Air Demonstration Along Frontier

Soviet Fliers Again KING'S VISIT

Bomb Korean Village

DISTORTION

OF REUTER NEWS

Shanghai, To-day.

The first concrete evidence of It actual distortion and re-writing of a foreign correspondent's telegram was received by Reuter's Shanghai It Office yesterday.

This was shown by the receipt

Tokyo, To-day.

TO BOYS' HOLIDAY CAMP

London, To-day.

His Majesty the King spent 4

is learned here that Japanese airplanes, appar-

ently in order to make a show of strength, flew hours at the Boys Holiday Camp at along the eastern frontier of Manchukuo yes- Southwold before returning yester- terday morning.

is emphasised that although they passed over day afternoon to the Royal Yacht Soviet territory they did not engage in hostile Victoria and Albert, which left for activities, going on unchallenged. number of planes participating in the flight the night.

Yarmouth where it anchored for

was not disclosed.

yesterday of a message as des-The patched on July 7 from Reuter's office in Tsingtao to Shanghai.

The message ran: "A Briton, Mr. Jock Crighton, was stopped by a Japanese sentry for smoking a cigarette on the Commercial Wharf this morning. Mr. Crigh- ton extinguished the cigarette and apologised, whereupon the

· sentry slapped his face."

The message as handed to Reuter in Shanghai on July 7, after passing the censor, ran as far as the word "apologised," but from there continued! whereupon the sentry let him go."

Hitherto it has only been possi- ble to trace instances when censors have suppressed whole telegrams or cut out certain passages, and this is the first recorded incident of the actual insertion of a differ- ent text by the censors. Reuter.

JAPANESE STOP RETURN TO KIUKIANG

Shanghai, To-day.

The foreigners who took" re- fuge aboard H.M.S. Cockchafer, the U.S.S. Monocacy and the Bri- tish 8.8. Wenchow, anchored three miles up

river from Kiu-

kiang, have been placed in a very awkward position as the

Another Soviet raid in Korea was recorded by the beach, which

His s Majesty reached and left the Korean Army in a communique which says holiday makers, in a rowing boat was crowded with that Soviet war-planes, flying in formation, pulled by two local fishermen aged. crossed the Korean border at 6.00 p.m., and 66 and 68. bombed the village of Kojo.

4 ;"

While in the camp, which is un- The extent of the damage and the heights dominating the town Welfare Society and attended in der the auspices of the Industrial the casualties are not mentioned from which they had been expelled in the communique.

by the Japanese a few days pre-equal proportions by public school Soviet troops launched attacks viously. Both attacks were repulsed. boys and lads already in industrial on Changkufeng and the Shao-

FORTY RAIDERS

employment, the King inspected all tsaoping area at nightfall, ac- cording to an official report, It appears that forty Soviet air-ed the boys in the concert hall.

the tents and afterwards address- which adds that the Japanese are planes took part in the air raids resisting and that fighting is still yesterday, the objective of which Later he watched a game of the in progress. Reuter.

was the Japanese Infantry posi- camp's special variety of netball- tions.

Association and Rugby otball and other in-

fienta.

British Wire-

LAND ATTACKS

General Todo, who arrived here Tokyo, To-day,' yesterday from Hsinking, declared Scarcely had the news of bomb- to the press representatives that Before leaving His Majesty join- ing of Changkufeng by Soviet air-the Manchurian frontier is so ed the boys in the singing of the planes yesterday morning become strongly fortified that no serious Camp Song with its ritual of ap known here when the Ministry of danger could arise from incidents propriate gesture. War issued a second communique

of this kind Trans-Ocean. stating that the Soviet Infantry and tanks had attacked that town al- most immediately afterwards. While the infantry advanced from the south, eight tanks attacked from the north, in an effort to recapture

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CANTON'S FIRST RAID ALARM

result of refusal by the Japanese FOR A WEEK

authorities to allow them to land and resume charge of their pro- perties, although all is peaceful at the present in Kiukiang,

Canton, To-day. Air-raid alarms which have not They are at present unable to been heard for over a week, move from the vicinity of Kiu- screeched through the city yes- kiang, owing to the Chinese terday afternoon, when in spite mines up-river and down-river of heavy rain, low lying clouds which have not yet been destroy- accompanied by thunder and ed.

lightning, & fleet of Japanese planes were reported over Bocca Tigris heading for the city.

The majority of the cooped up foreigners are employees of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Jar dine's and Socony. Reuter.

Twelve machines flew along the Pearl River and over Whampoa, but did not drop any bombs,

They next visited the Canton-

CURRENCY RUMOUR Kowloon Line and dropped about

Rumours of

luation of:

were emphat

brief Tuesday

15 bombs in the vicinity of Shek Lung, where, according to verna- cular reports, several houses were destroyed and more than 10 persons killed

Cheunge

ed and over 20

was also bomb-

Being drop-

ped" at - Szetonglim Village.

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